Re: [PATCH 1/4] vfs: add file_dentry()

[Sedat Dilek]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> This series fixes bugs in nfs and ext4 due to 4bacc9c9234c ("overlayfs: Make
>>>> f_path always point to the overlay and f_inode to the underlay").
>>>>
>>>
>>> Can you put that series in your vfs.git tree?
>>> Easier for getting and testing.
>>
>> Ok, pushed to:
>>
>>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs.git file_dentry
>>
>
> Is that correct the ext4-related patches 3/4 and 4/4 are Linux-v4.5 material?
> Not applicable fpr v4.4.y-stable?
>

Sorry, for disturbing again - parallelly building some other software
which needs my attention.

Why didn't you split 1/4 into a vfs (generic) part and overlayfs (related) part?
Thinking of bisecting or backporting ovl fixes.

Just my â0,02.

- Sedat -